Smoke eaters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were working in a burned-down Altadena neighborhood on Thursday when they came across two suspicious people who were leaving one of the

Citing airborne contaminants and a lack of running water, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shut down the Altadena sheriff’s station Thursday in the aftermath of the Eaton fire.

Radio reports reveal the scramble to contain the Eaton fire as it exploded from a 10-acre brush fire to a devastating 14,000-acre blaze that destroyed thousands of homes.

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities

SHE JOINS US LIVE FROM ALTADENA, THE PLACE OF THE EATON FIRE. AND THERE’S JUST SO MUCH DESTRUCTION. ANDREA. LISA, IT’S JUST YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW BAD IT IS UNTIL YOU’RE HERE ON THE GROUND. WE’RE SEEING THE DEVASTATION FIRSTHAND.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, officials said, scorching more than 60 square miles and displacing tens of thousands of people.

The Eaton fire continues to burn in the Altadena area below the Angeles National Forest Sunday, with 16 deaths reported in the Eaton Canyon area.

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode.

Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone ... threatening approximately 8,200 homes in and around Altadena and Pasadena, California, population 40,000," said the statement from ...

Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles and some residents have been urged to "pack all people and pets into [their] vehicle and leave the area immediately."

Petrini and her daughter Marli may have found their first reason to smile since the Eaton fire ... in east Los Angeles Wednesday morning, in a line nearly a block long, to get into Altadena ...